WCAGA Members Exhibition

March 13 - 6 to 8pm - Opening Reception

Crossing into Abstraction abstraction |abˈstrakSHəәn| noun 1 the quality of dealing with ideas rather than events: topics will vary in degrees of abstraction. • something that exists only as an idea: the question can no longer be treated only representationally. 2freedom from representational qualities in art: geometric and organic imagery • an abstract work of art. 3 a state of preoccupation: it’s what happens with artists when they are working. 4 the process of considering something independently of its associations, attributes, or concrete accompaniments: giving objects the power to represent more than its reality. 5 the process of removing something, deleting non essentials, like form, lines, color that tell our eyes it is something from the real world 6 Why? the question that invariably arises. (see #1) ORIGIN late Middle English: from Latin verb abstrahere ‘draw away’ (see abstract) .